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If it's on that panel, it's getting made soon... if it's not, it's not...

Had to cut a few things I was planning on making to make room for more BZFZs, based on the response to the pre-sale thread -- hopefully that wasn't a bad decision.
 
I'm guessing the bottom 2 are BZ/FZ, with the robots on them. But the bottom one appears (illusion?) to have 1 less robot that the pcb above it?

I have no idea what the others are, can anyone else tell (I know Mark can, I was just curious).
 
I am envious, I wish I was putting the finishing touches in layout. I am so tired of looking at the capture screen.
 

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Pardon my electronic ignorance...but what the hell am I looking at?

Guys like Mark (actually, there's not many guys like Mark) make rare jamma adaptors, multigame boards, memory save kits, etc. that enhance the older games.

These boards need little custom pcb's made, with the traces in the right spot so the chips can be added to them and populated out.

The screenshot is a program that these guys use to design and layout these boards; what you're seeing is several different small pcb's laid out into one sheet, that Mark can mail off to the etching or whatever company that will make them and mail them back. Usually there's perferations so he can snap the boards apart, and I imagine this is just the layout, and he'll have several of these printed up. The bigger the entire board, the more expensive it is, so if you can fit a ton of projects into one board like this, it makes the pcb's cost less. This way he can do 6 different projects with the same board design, instead of trying to get a full sheet of each one printed out.
 
Hudsonarcade,

How do you like P-Cad? I use Altium Designer and it's much better IMO.

Altium bought PCad several years ago... I haven't tried Altium....

I use PCad because a secretary at MIT bought new licenses intead of upgrade liceneses for the lab several years ago, so the 'old' licenses were free for the snarfing :)

If I were paying for it myself, I'd probably be using Eagle.
 
That's way too low rez for me too see what it is... heh. Looks like a lot of RAMs/ROMs and stereo digial audio out though...

I kind of did that on purpose, but if you want to see the full res I'll e-mail it to you. But your exactly right, digital audio is in there.

I'm about 97% done with the capture side, so possibly a few more weeks and I will move this into Layout.
 
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